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If I pull my 24" Chinese cutter out of the skip and give it a wipe will anyone offer me 2 grand for it? It's 8 years newer than the OP's machine BTW. I've got a couple of ancient clipart CD's somewhere which you can have.... the rubbish bins upstairs are pretty full... I'll pull out all the...

That sounds like a load of scaremongering b0llocks thought up by someone who sells expensive LED tubes. T8 lamps of ALL kinds are designed to fit T8 housings... these housings are specifically designed so that it's impossible to fit one end into the terminals without the other end following in...

When your banner is wrapped around the windscreen of the school bus don't expect to hear anything from 3m save the sound of footsteps receeding into the far distance at great speed. Doug's idea of using a rigid board sounds more likely to work... all it takes is for a puff of wind to get behind...

If you want a cast full matte laminate why bother paying waaayy over the odds for the tat that 3m offers? I've just bought a 50m roll of cast, matte laminate from Hexis... it cost all of £85. I appreciate that Americans really do buy into the 3m b0llocks but honestly.... 3M really is nothing...

Farcela compound normally does the trick with tired looking paint work.. just slap some on, add a dash of water and rub with a cloth.. it brings dull paint back to a nice gloss finish.

Vac forming is probably your only viable option. For a short run job like this you should be able to get away with using a urethane foam for your mould.. it should give you a least half a dozen pulls before it starts to degrade... slap plenty of release agent on or it'll stick like cr@p to a...

Forget cheap... start thinking about quality. You want to be poking around looking for the best QUALITY machine you can find. Forget buying a brand new Chinese $hit pile.... start looking for a used machine from a decent manufacturer; Summa, Roland, Graphtec etc. I've used all sorts of kit...

Sounds to me like the setup data in your control software is not quite right... the numerical values which tell the control software what gearing ratios it's working with are wrong. If you're having to increase files by 0.5% I suspect that the gear size in your control software is smaller than...

PayPal? Are you kidding? PayPal UK are based in Luxembourg.... you won't see a list of phone numbers or a postal address which make this clear on their website because they've gone to huge lengths to hide all their email adresses, phone numbers and their actual geographical location. To me...

I have neither the time nor inclination to embark on repeatedly trying to polish a turd. In my experience Chinese cutters don't offer the kind of precision and accuracy I consider to be even close to an acceptable standard. The fact that I'll happily throw away the kind of machinery you take...

What Bob said... The Chinese can't even design & built a decent plotter.... logic dictates that their efforts at producing more complicated printing machinery aren't going to be ANY better. Let me just clarify; the Chinese plotters I chucked out were NOT ancient... they were manufactured last...

Luckily the only thing I've wasted my money on have been a pair of cheap Chinese vinyl plotters which hit the bottom of our skip in fully working condition. I don't cut much vinyl these days but even so these Chinese Junkers weren't worth keeping even though they still worked perfectly, in the...

If your Japanese printer is made in China it doesn't mean it's Chinese... it means it's a printer built to a Japanese design & a Japanese standard overseen by Japanese engineers mass produced using master tooling made in Japan. If you remove the Japanese expertise from the equation you loose...

Can you live with these 10 things; 1) Chinglese instruction manuals which make absolutely no sense and have huge chunks of important information missing. 2) Badly coded, poorly designed control software which is counter intuitive to use, crashes often and has many on screen buttons which link...

Be up before dawn and watch the sun come up. Solstice's don't mark ANYTHING in the Roman calendar.... Summer, June, July, August... these are all Roman concepts and the Druid religion is much, much older than even the Romans. The summer solstice doesn't mark the start of summer... it marks the...

You'll have to bear with me here because I know diddly squat about modern printing machines. I've read & re-read your posts and something keeps nagging away... motion control. We had a frustrating issue with a CNC router. Turn the machine on, run a small cutting job... happy days. Load up a...

No one will "make" a ton of money. What will happen is that the large volume users who buy from companies within the independent sign industry will "save" money by buying their own print machines and then running everything in-house. As you've pointed out Walmart is effectively dead as far as...

What you really want is Marmite... the original British stuff which the Aussies just copied... all be it badly. From what I hear Vegemite tastes horrible in comparison to the real thing... Marmite.

Belgium is NOT a hot bed of pirated software and YOU ARE NOT going to get ripped off by Belgian suppliers. Belgium is HOME to the European Commission.. the people who RUN the entire European Union. Civilisation doesn't stop at the statue of liberty you know.

Try seeing this from Herman's perspective... he's spent a boat load of Euros designing, developing and marketing a product which belongs to him. Appointing a US distributor is a major step for a small German company.. he's probably remortgaged his house to fund everything. I'm sorry but I fail...